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Wagner, Richard: Overture to „Tannhäuser”

Concert Paraphrase for Piano

Setting: Piano
Period: Romantic
Length: 52 pages
Weight: 0.225 kg
Published: 2017
Publisher: G. Henle Verlag
Item number: HN1066
Other reference: HN 1066
ISMN: 9790201810669
Looking back in 1876, Liszt admitted candidly to the publisher Breitkopf & Härtel that his ''Wagner transcriptions'' had ''only served as modest propaganda for Wagner’s noble genius, using the meagre possibilities of the piano''. In fact, in around 1850, Wagner’s operas Der fliegende Holländer, Tannhäuser and Lohengrin ╩ which would later be so successful ╩ were only being performed at the Weimar Court Theatre under Liszt’s baton. Liszt was inspired to compose his Tannhäuser Paraphrase by perfor
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